Here are the books, authors and illustrators who have touched my heart.
The excellent illustrations of Arthur Rackham, the re-told Faery Tales
edited by Teri Windling, and the views of modern interactions with the
Fae, brought to us by Emma Bull and the excellent Charles deLint. These
are the books that live on my library shelves  that is, when they
are not being joyously re-read.

We've provided a direct link to each book listing on Amazon.com, to
make it easier for you to get more information about the book. There
are quite a few on this list that are out of print. If you find that
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Dawn's Favorites:

Charles deLint sees the Fae with clarity. He populates his stories
with fae and humans so believable it is difficult to return to our day-to-day
lives. These books are in my library, sometimes loaned out, sometimes
not... deLint creates his beings with such rich detail that when I have
finished one of his books I often continue dreaming about the characters,
taking the story line into my own heart and mind. He speaks to those
symbols that are deep in our centers, leaving our centers little to
do but respond, and gladly. What I particularly enjoy is that the language
of the old Fae (in the Jack books) is a language I've been studying
this past year. The first book by deLint I encountered was Yarrow 
by the end of the book I had come home.

Note that there are several books at the bottom of the deLint list
that have not yet been released. Amazon.com will take pre-ordering of
those (I plan to have them as soon as they come out). I have never been
disappointed with a book by deLint. Enough of the chat  here is
the list:

Terri Windling started a project a few years back, to re-tell
the classic Fairy Tales in modern settings. Several other authors have
joined in on this project, and the stories get better all the time.
These are not the light and happy fairy tales we remember from our childhoods
 these are mature, well-told tales with the fairy tale as the
starting point. In "The Essential Bordertown", Windling (the
editor) brings together several authors (13 stories in all) with the
theme of Bordertown  where human and faery fringe elements meet.

Emma Bull writes of the Bordertown, where streetwise Elves and
Humans mix it up. Plenty of magic working alongside our modern urban
conveniences. The first novel I read of hers was War for the Oaks, with
the age-old battle between the Seleigh and the Unseleigh courts coming
through a gateway into our world  on the campus of the University
of Minnesota. Ms. Bull has the gift of taking the reader into her reality.
When I finished War for the Oaks, I wanted to be just starting it. Mixing
musicians and Faery with just the right flavoring of wonder... I am
so glad the book is back in print  and I do hope Ms. Bull writes
more soon!

Arthur Rackham was chiefly an illustrator of childrens' books
and fairy tales. His illustrations are rich, and curiously different
from other illustrators of Faery of his time. I am the happy owner of
a first edition "A Fairy Book" illustrated by Mr. Rackham,
and it is a joy to see his odd creatures and beautiful maidens going
through the actions described in the tales. The book, dated 1923, is
sadly out of print. These two new books (below) have some of those illlustrations
as well.